Jurassic Portal

by Robert Turnbull Jr.

  The rest of the day and on into evening was spent talking about Coi’s civilization and the three temples that Jack had seen in the distance, and toward the south side of the mesa’s edge. Coi explained that they were once temples built by the old ones; elders that first came through the portal.

  They had first settled on this mesa as it was the largest and had originally thought that the portal was an opening the Gods had made for them to go join them. Nearly one thousand poured through the opening over the next few decades as word spread…many fell to the beasts that roamed their new world; hence the portal watch began.

  For nearly a century they thought that the Gods had sent them to the Mayan version of hell as punishment for the sacrifices…then came the first of Jan’s people.

  The English made friends with the Mayans and were taught to survive on the mesas. Already the Mayans had settled on five of the eleven mesas that they now controlled. Some had broken off and were just as estranged from the whites as their Mayan brothers, but still traded occasionally. Quta was still looked upon as their king. The newcomers were given the inland mesas as the Mayans had spread along the mesas closest to the coast.

  At dinner Quta explained that he ruled seven mesas, the others had their own chief and while they traded with one another as well as the whites, they had formed their own varied societies. Some of these tribes remained set in their old ways, that while no sacrifices were made, they were extremely superstitious. It was they that traded mostly with the pirate community and then traded those goods with Quta’s people as he was still their king Other Mayans got something called coil from the sea and from it, things like rope, and cloth was made.

  The rest of the evening was spent talking about Jack’s world. Only one other large group of Jack’s people had arrived on that shelf near the river, some Indian tribe of the ancient Amazon jungle that were hostile toward all that tried to help them, but somehow managed to flee to the mesa that was now Jacks’. Without the help of the Mayan’s, they perished within a few years. Then came an adventurer like Jack and several native bearers that survived for nearly two decades, but deep within their bodies was hidden a deadly virus that killed them and those living with them. Luckily that was about the time that several more English came through the portal and brought with them the doctor that created vaccines; now all civilizations had been immunized.

  Each civilization had their own illnesses and from those new vaccines were made, now all were safe…and Jack sincerely hoped that his people would not bring something new to the table.

  The evening dragged into night and that to early hours, and as none at the table could stay awake enough to ask more questions, pleasant good nights were bade and Jack was ushered to an elaborate room at the end of a long marble-like hall.

  He tested the bed and after his rather long day, it felt so good to the touch. Not wanting to mess up the silk linens, he crawled into what appeared to be a bathroom…he was stunned. There was an in floor tub filled with hot water. An actual commode that the Mayan’s had adopted from the English; their ceramic work was exquisite, the workmanship amazing. What they had accomplished without machinery was stunning…and the water was hot!

  Even in the warm humid night, Jack’s bath was relaxing and how long he slept, he wasn’t sure, nor did he bother to light the oil lamp to check.

  Naked as a jay bird and relaxed from his bath he slid between the silk sheets and nearly fell asleep before his head hit the rather plush pillow.

  One glance out the grated window that kept the overly large insects out, and bathed in the silvery moonlight that burst through it, Jack never felt so content.

  “What more could a man ask for?” he muttered softly.

  From the corner of his eye there was movement in the shadows and a silhouette appeared. Jack drew a quick breath and pretended not to see. His hand tightly grasped the large pillow and prepared to defend himself.

  The silhouette glided in front of the first large window to reveal a woman’s shape and with the moonlight behind her, her loosely woven gown was transparent…she drifted into the darkness only to reappear in the moonlight next to Jack’s bed, and quite naked.

  “Coi?”

  A soft finger lightly touched Jack’s lips as he felt the covers being pulled back and then a soft giggle…

  Jack stood in the middle of the bed “You aren’t Coi.”

  “No my lord, Coi sent me. My princess thought that you might like some companionship this night.”

  Jack gently touched the young woman and knelt to face her.

  “It’s not that you aren’t a beautiful woman, but I can’t sleep with you.” She scrambled out of Jack’s bed and grasped her gown.

  “I am sorry that I do not please you my lord.”

  Jack wrapped the sheet around himself and stood, kissed the woman on her cheek.

  “You are very pleasing, but it is my personal custom to only sleep with a woman of my choosing, not a slave.”

  “Oh sir, I am not a slave, I serve my mistress and I am paid a very good…ummm…”

  “Salary?” Jack asked more than corrected.

  “I am not sure my lord, I am paid and like the others have wonderful rooms provided, but am free to come and go as I please.”

  Jack smiled and gently slapped her on her rear end.

  “Ok, fine…scoot! Oh and tell Coi thanks, but I only sleep with…”

  “Women you choose, I understand.” She smiled warmly in the moonlight and scampered out the door as Jack slid back into bed.

  Within a few minutes and just as he was nodding off the door clicked. Jack sighed as a warm body slid into bed next to his.

  “I told Coi I choose the woman or women I sleep with.” and again another explanation. Again another apology as the lady in waiting slipped from his room.

  Twice more Jack was interrupted, twice more they were sent packing and the last time the maid was to tell Coi not to send any more women and that he needed sleep.

  Finally after a good ten minutes Jack realized that he must have rejected all of Coi’s ladies in waiting…

  His eyes closed…the bed bounced and a frustrated Jack flopped over.

  “Look I told you…”

  A gentle hand covered his mouth and a deep sigh could be heard “Well I guess I’ll just have to take care of you myself.” before Jack could speak, Coi’s warm lips pressed against his and her tongue probed his moist mouth.

  After a long heated kiss, Jack pushed her back to arm’s length.

  “Look, you don’t ‘have’ to do anything for me Coi, I…”

  She pushed him over and laid her naked body atop his, her hot breath in his ear and her panting breath moaned “Just be gentle my love…this is my first time.”

  Jack jumped so hard and fast that he fell out of bed and was tangled in the silken sheets. “WHAT! Jesus Coi, I…didn’t mean to lead you on…I mean…” Jack was so overwhelmed that his mind blanked.

  In the moonlight the very naked Coi crawled off the bed and onto Jack as she gently pulled the sheet from Jack and slid on the floor next to him. She caressed his hand and pulled it to cup her breast.

  “I know what I want my love…” she kissed him so gently he though an angel had kissed him.

  “You do not have to love me, just allow me to love you.” She kissed him again lower and lower. As her hand grasped him and she gasped at the size, but did not stop her soft kisses as she softly cooed.

  “But my love, it is you that I desire and it is you that I want as my first.” She squeezed it and slowly began to gently stroke him. Jack was startled by the moan that escaped his lips.

  “You see my love, women are taught from puberty about men and how to please them…” she moaned as Jack’s hand drifted unconsciously down her flat stomach and slid between her now parting legs.

  “I’m so tired of learning…I…want to know…” she gasped his hand and forced it back between her legs “now…” she gasped and pulled Jack on top of her writhing body.

/>   She pulled him down, pushed her heels into his back as she arched upward. Coi let out a short, little pained gasp and then lowered herself back to the sheet. She slowly pushed him deeper inside and gasped a muffled moan of pleasure…that was followed by a much louder primal growl as Jack began to slowly move.

  Coi was making so much noise that Jack feared that guards might burst in at any time to save their princess from whatever torture was happening to her. So he covered her open mouth to quiet her down...and she clamped her teeth down on his hand as sweat beaded on her forehead.

  She thrust upward so hard she nearly threw Jack off and this time clamped her teeth down on his hand so hard, Jack nearly cried out in pain.

  She slowly stopped and as tears ran down her cheeks whispered into Jack’s ear…

  “That was beautiful my love.”

  Jack smiled but before he could say more Coi rolled him over and climbed on top.

  “And now my love I’ll take care of you.”

  Chapter 14.

  Late morning rolled around and Coi took her time leaving. Jack was the only one in that particular wing so Coi didn’t worry about being seen. And it appeared that there was a hidden passage somewhere in the hall, as Jack opened the door to say something to her…and she was gone! The long stone hall was empty.

  It wasn’t long before he heard a lone guard’s steps as he walked down the long hallway. A loud knock, a quick and strange salute, he escorted Jack to an elaborate breakfast and the woman that he had spent the night with. Beside her sat her father dressed only in simple white robes and Coi patted a spot on a large padded bench that she sat on.

  “Come sit down Jack.” Quta commanded with a grin “Sit and eat.” Jack sat and the food on the table was impressive, but not wasteful. There were fruits and eggs that Jack could only imagine from whence they came. There was thinly sliced roast that Coi said was from a species of diver, and he chuckled because it did indeed taste like chicken; then Jack had to explain the joke so his new friends wouldn’t be offended.

  Quta nodded that he understood “Some of the divers are nearly inedible as they are too chewy and tough, others will make you down right sick.” he laughed and pointed toward the door Jack had entered through.

  “I hope you found our customs to your liking Jack. As you see, our civilization looks at sex differently from yours’…or at least Mrs. Waite’s world. I am sorry that there were no other guests in the guest wing to keep you company, but I know Coi sent you some of her maids…” he took a long drink of a kind of wine that was made from berries from below the mesa “forgive me Jack, but the halls and rooms do echo…” he chuckled and looked at his daughter. Coi…which maid did Jack take into his bed? They all are quite lovely…which did he see?”

  Jack nearly choked when Coi smiled and replied “Why daddy, I can honestly say that he saw all of them.”

  As Coi vigorously slapped Jack on the back and the blue color slowly vanished from his face, her father looked quite impressed. He had indeed seen all her maids, but if daddy ever found out…

  “So Jack which ones were the ones screaming all night long?” This time the tasty wine shot out of his nose as once again Jack nearly choked to death. As Coi slapped Jack on his back she shouted…

  “DADDY!”

  “I am sorry Jack, I keep forgetting about your people’s modesty.” Quta quickly resounded as he was obviously embarrassed.

  “I just wanted to inquire if you had been satisfied last night…a man should be satisfied.” he tried to explain.

  Jack waved that it was ok as he once again started to catch his breath as he wiped the wine from the table that had spewed forth from his nose…and then Coi smiled at her father and replied…

  “Oh Jack was satisfied all right last night daddy.” again Jack choked as wine shot out of his nose and Coi slapped him on his back again over and over.

  Quta looked strangely at Jack “Perhaps it is our wine that doesn’t agree with you Jack?”

  Coi looked at her father with a sweet, but wry smile “I’m sure it was just the lack of sleep daddy. Lack of sleep does do that to people.” she looked at her lover as he started to take another sip to clear his throat “He did sound like he enjoyed himself last night I have to admit, I too could hear him moaning.” Jack put the cup of wine on the table and decided he’d just give up on trying to drink, lest he choke to death right there in front of them.

  Quta nodded “Well my child, I am glad you were on top of it.” Jack choked again and arose as he waved furiously that he had, had enough.

  “Must…be the…wine…sorry…” he headed out the main door and into the long hallway that he used to enter the huge home of Coi. His boots clunked on the marble and he could hear the patter of Coi’s leather sandals quickly running behind him.

  Her soft hand grasped his muscular arm “I’m sorry Jack, I couldn’t resist…it was wrong of me.”

  Jack walked through the huge wooden door and stopped in the front portico before the stairs. He turned and looked at the lovely raven haired woman that stood before him.

  “Coi…” he sighed deeply “I didn’t mind the teasing, but I was more worried about what would happen to you if you father found out about us. I mean, Jesus, you and I…I mean, all night…”

  Coi rolled her eyes and softly chuckled “Oh my God, Jack, do you think daddy was going to have me whipped or sacrificed like the Mayans in your reality might have done?”

  She leaned into Jack and laid her head on his chest which tucked softly under his chin as she softly chuckled and the scent of lilac tickled his senses. “This isn’t your world Jack, nor mine. We have all changed our ways in order to exist here, I was born here, to these laws, these rules…” she looked up at him with her dark eyes that seemed to swallow his soul “I fell in love with you Jack even though I barely know you…and I expect nothing from you in return, other than to let me love you.”

  Jack snorted gently which Coi quickly took notice of and leaned back.

  “That would be the big freakin’ problem now wouldn’t it. You love me and I love you, and now what’s daddy going to do if he catches us?”

  “Daddy would understand Jack, he only wants the best for…” Coi froze and started to tremble slightly “you…you…said that you…loved me?”

  “Yeah, dammit I was always sneaking a peek at you on our mesa,” he smiled “you do have a great body on ya. I thought that was all it was…then in the jungle we got to know each other, we talked, I found out how smart and funny you are…resourceful…” Jack smiled and Coi thought that she was going to faint right there in front of everyone on the street below “then you sent in all those beautiful women, and I turned them all down.”

  Coi gently grasped Jack’s hands “You did, didn’t you?”

  “Yeah,” he sighed “and then I realized that I only wanted you…and then you came to me.”

  Coi chuckled softly “Several times.”

  Jack snorted “Jesus! Try to be romantic and…”

  “I’m so sorry Jack. You are my first love, my first…” she smiled sweetly “you know. I’m just trying to be humorous because I no longer know how to act now that you told me how you feel.”

  Jack pulled her to his side, to a point to which he figured was safe so no others might see them.

  “And that’s the problem at some point we’ll have to face the fact that you are a princess and I not one of your kind. From what I understand that your mother is dead and you have no other siblings, you are next in line for the throne.” he sighed as Coi once again tucked her head under his chin and sighed with him.

  “What does it matter if you both are in love?” Both lovers jumped to see Coi’s father standing there. He stepped close to them and gently tucked his daughter under his arm and laid his hand on Jack’s shoulder.

  “Do you two seriously think that I would not recognize my own daughter’s moans and screams of pleasure.” he chuckled “There were barely enough pillows to muffle her ‘Oh Gods’ and the othe
r things that she screamed last night. He glanced down at her “Learned from the English I am assuming?”

  By now both were sputtering and trying to figure out what to say next, but Coi’s father wasn’t chief because of his lack of wisdom.

  “The problem isn’t with Jack my child, but rather if Jack would be willing to live a life as king of our people. You know that if you wed, your husband will hold the power?”

  “I know daddy and I’d…”

  Jack stepped back and looked at the two “Ok you two, stop planning my future.”

  As Jack slowly took Coi from her father and into his arms he spoke to both.

  “Just as you have a responsibility to your people my love, I too have a responsibility to mine. I must try every avenue to find a safe way home for them, which is why they hired me.” he looked deeply into Coi’s eyes.

  “Coichuchulan my love, you must understand that it is that responsibility that I must pursue above all else.” he sighed “Even if they discover that they like it here, I have to be able to give them the option to do so.”

  “And that Jack, is why I have no objections to you as my daughter’s suitor.” the chief replied with an astute look “I know a good man when I see one, you would make a great and wise king.”

  “Assuming I do find a way home for my people and perhaps everyone else that wants to return to their worlds, then we can talk about the future as it applies to us.”

  Coi stepped over and hugged her father tightly.

  “I’m sorry father for trying to deceive you.”

  Quta smiled and winked at Jack so Coi couldn’t see.

  “Love does things to a person my child that cannot be explained. You have never tried to deceive me before, and now you know that I approve, I trust that you will not do so again.”

  “I promise father.”

  Quta chuckled and gently pushed his daughter back into Jack’s arms.

  “I know my child…” he was trying hard not to laugh and Jack could see it “as you rarely call me father. Last night after Jack went to bed and we talked for a while, it was no longer daddy, but father. I knew then that my little girl had grown up, and the way you looked at Jack during dinner…” he sighed “reminded me how I used to look at your mother.” Without further ado, Quta spun nodded at the guards and vanished through the door.